During the cloudy evenings, I have been writing a bit of software to help me log observations, in expectation of that happy night when I'll be able to run my laptop off a battery. I'm interested to know if anyone out there uses observation logging software and if so what does it log that you depend on, what doesn't it log that you wish it did, what makes it useful, what makes it suck, etc... I want to get it right. I have it talking with my planetarium software (Cartes du Ciel) so it grabs all the stuff like coordinates of objects, date, time, geographical location etc., it calculates power, fov and so on for a given eyepiece/scope, and best for me it has a HUGE font so I can read it without reading glasses :) I'll donate it back to the Cartes du Ciel guy when it's done (who, BTW, did that nice image of the sun in the latest Coronado advert in S&T).
Is this on topic? I'm pretty good at going off topic - side effect of having written web discussion software for years, it all looks tangential to me. If that's not OT, and the laptop doesn't tick folks off, I can always fall back on lighting a cigar, the ultimate social green laser :)